Carrier route record

MQELP→PHX

Envoy Air · El Paso to Phoenix

Flights: 318
Period: July 2025 to June 2026
Share of route: 13%
Carriers: 4

Historical statistics for July 2025 to June 2026, not live status. For today’s flights, check with Envoy Air.

Envoy on ELP to PHX earns a B+. More than four flights in five arrive inside the 15-minute window the DOT uses to define an on-time arrival, which puts it 7 points better than the national rate of 77.6%. When something does go wrong the average delay runs about an hour. That rests on 318 flights. The strongest carrier on the route with a full sample, SkyWest Airlines, flew 852 at 83.9% on time.

Set against the rest of the country, Envoy's ELP to PHX record is 7 points better than the US average of 77.6%. That gap is worth roughly 72 fewer late arrivals for every thousand flights.

On time

84.8%

Arrivals under 15 minutes late, of 315 completed flights

Avg delay

59 min

Across delayed arrivals only, not all flights

Cancelled

0.63%

National rate is 1.81%

Whole route

81.1%

Every carrier on ELP to PHX, 2,507 flights

These figures cover 318 flights between July 2025 and June 2026. The median arrival is 6 minutes early, which is the part an average hides: most flights here are fine, and the on-time rate is decided by a tail of badly late ones. On-time means under 15 minutes late, the DOT's own threshold.

Carrier by carrier

Envoy against every carrier on ELP to PHX

Envoy flew 318 of the 2,507 flights on ELP to PHX, about 13% of it. Its 84.8% on time is 4 points better than the route as a whole, which runs 81.1%. Ranked by on-time rate it is number two of four carriers on the route, where the range runs from American at 84.9% to Southwest at 77.8%. One of those carriers flew fewer than 365 flights here, so treat their positions as rough.

The choice of carrier is not cosmetic here. SkyWest Airlines arrives on time 83.9% of the time; Southwest Airlines manages 77.8%. Sample sizes sit next to every figure, because a two-point gap across 1,218 flights means less than a ten-point one.

On-time performance by carrier on ELP to PHX
Airline	Flights	On time	Avg delay	Cancelled	Grade
American Airlinesthin sample	119	84.9%	53 min	0.00%	B+
Envoy Air (this page)thin sample	318	84.8%	59 min	0.63%	B+
SkyWest Airlines	852	83.9%	112 min	0.82%	B+
Southwest Airlines	1,218	77.8%	50 min	0.82%	B+

SkyWest leads Southwest by 6 points. Real, but small enough that a better departure time on the weaker carrier can outweigh it.

Departure window

When Envoy runs best on this route

Departure time matters more here than the choice of carrier. The gap between the best and worst window is 17 points, against 6 points between the best and worst carrier. Each bar is the on-time rate for flights scheduled inside that window.

5am–8am30 flights86.7%
8am–11am40 flights82.1%
11am–2pm78 flights94.9%
2pm–5pm83 flights82.7%
5pm–8pm86 flights77.9%
8pm–5am1 flights—

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

The best window here is not the first bank but the 11am–2pm slot at 94.9% on time, ahead of 5pm–8pm at 77.9%. Where the curve peaks mid-day rather than at dawn, the constraint is usually congestion at one end rather than the aircraft's own rotation. The 5pm–8pm window is the busiest, with 86 flights scheduled in it.

Across the year

Envoy on ELP to PHX through the year

Jul–Sep 202579 flights93.7%
Oct–Dec 2025111 flights81.5%
Jan–Mar 202682 flights80.5%
Apr–Jun 202646 flights84.8%

Scale runs 70% to 100%. Rows with fewer than 30 flights show a dash.

Monthly volumes are too low here to break the year into twelve reliable readings. What the twelve-month total says is 84.8% on time across 318 flights.

Envoy on ELP to PHX did not run the same all year. Its best quarter was Jul–Sep 2025 at 93.7% on time and its weakest Jan–Mar 2026 at 80.5%, a swing of 13 points on roughly 80 flights a quarter. The twelve-month rate averages over that, so if you are flying in a weak quarter the quarter's own figure is the better guide.

Across the week, Friday is the strongest day at 86.4% on time and Saturday the weakest at 81.1%. 5 points is a smaller lever than departure hour, but it is free.

Delay causes

Why Envoy runs late on this route

One category carries most of the weight here. Late-arriving aircraft accounts for 60% of the 2,811 delay minutes carriers reported, and the remaining four split what is left. The split is by minutes rather than by flights, so a few very long delays count for as much as many short ones.

Late-arriving aircraft
60%
National Airspace System
26%
Carrier
14%

60% of delay minutes trace back to a late-arriving aircraft, meaning the plane was already behind before it got here. That is a cascade, and cascades start small and grow through the day. Across 2,811 reported delay minutes here, that single category outweighs weather by 60 to one. It is the strongest argument for booking the first departure of the morning, when the aircraft has been sitting at the gate overnight with nothing to inherit. The split is drawn from 2,811 reported delay minutes.

Cancellations are rare at 0.63%, below the national 1.81% and low enough to earn the plus on the grade. Roughly one flight in 100 is called off; the risk here is arriving late, not not arriving.

Connections and stage length

What a delay here costs

Badly late arrivals are rare here: only 4.8% land an hour or more behind schedule, against 8.1% nationally. Connections built on this flight are about as safe as US domestic connections get, though a cancelled flight still ignores every layover you give it.

At 347 miles this is a short hop, and stage length matters more than it looks. A flight this short spends under two hours in the air, which leaves almost nothing to claw back a late pushback with. Delay here is decided on the ground, in the turn, which is why the 11am–2pm window matters as much as it does.

The return leg runs 85.4% on time across 318 flights, within half a point of this direction. The two legs are scored separately because they usually differ; on this city pair they happen not to.

One caution: this is a thin sample. 318 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor but not enough to pin the rate down tightly, and a single bad week moves it by more than a point. Treat the grade as a rough reading.

What to do with this

Booking Envoy on ELP to PHX

Put together: treat all of this as provisional. 318 flights over twelve months is enough to clear this site's floor and not enough to be confident to better than a couple of points. The 84.8% headline is the most reliable number on the page; the hour and month splits below it are built on a few dozen flights each. 315 completed flights over 12 months sit behind that.

Where to go next

Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, on-time performance data, July 2025 to June 2026. Last updated 15 September 2026; recomputed monthly. How this data is collected.

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